Johnny Depp: The Talented Actor

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Johnny Depp is an American actor and musician known for his images of1)offbeatand strange2)characterssuch as Jack Sparrow in thePirates of the Caribbeanfilm series.

1) offbeat [,?f'b?t] adj.離奇的；標新立異的；弱拍的

約翰尼·德普是美國演員和音樂人，并以他塑造的標新立異、古怪反常的人物形象如《加勒比海盜》系列的杰克船長而聞名。

Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. His mother is a waitress and his father is an engineer. The family moved many times during Depp’s childhood, and he and his3)siblingslived in more than 20 different places.

Depp starred in a lead role on the Fox TV television series,21 Jump Street, which4)premieredin 1987. But after that Depp promised himself that after his5)contracton the series expired, he would only appear in films that he felt were right for him.

Depp6)abandonedhis teen idol image in 1990 with the quirky title role in the Tim Burton film,Edward Scissorhands.

Depp’s status as a superstar was solidi fied with the success of the 2003 Walt Disney Pictures filmPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearlfor which his lead performance as the interesting pirate Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. Many people thought the role as probably being "one of the most popular performances of recent time ".

In 2004, he was again7)nominatedfor an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing

3)sibling ['s?bl??] n.兄弟姐妹

4)premiere [pr?'m??r] v.初 次上演

5)contract ['kantr?kt] n.合同，契約

7)nominated ['n?m?ne?t?d] v.提名，推薦Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the filmFinding Neverland. Deep next starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 filmCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was a major success at the box of fice.

List of awards and nominations received by Johnny Depp Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times and Golden Globe Awards eight times.

Depp won the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for his role inSweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetand from the Screen Actors8)Guild forPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

8) guild[g?ld] n.行會；協會

德普1963年6月9日出生在肯塔基州的歐文斯伯勒。他的媽媽是一名服務員，他的爸爸是一名工程師。在德普童年時期，他們頻繁搬家。他和他的兄弟姐妹在超過20個不同的地方居住過。

德普在1987年首映的福克斯電視系列《21猛鬼街》中擔任主演。在那之后德普向自己承諾，當合同到期后，他只會出現在他認為對的電影里。

在1990年德普通過飾演蒂姆·伯頓電影《剪刀手愛德華》里奇怪的角色而擺脫了他青少年偶像的形象。

德普超級巨星的地位是隨著2003年迪士尼電影《加勒比海盜：黑珍珠號的詛咒》而奠定的。他因主演古怪有趣的杰克船長得到了高度贊揚。許多人認為這個角色是同時代最受歡迎的表演之一。

2004年，他因出演電影《尋找夢幻島》中的英格蘭作家J.M.Barrie而獲奧斯卡最佳男演員獎提名。2005德普又在電影《查理與巧克力工廠》飾演Willy Wonka，票房大獲成功。

他曾獲得三次奧斯卡最佳男演員獎提名和八次金球獎提名。

德普因主演《理發師陶德》獲金球獎最佳男演員獎。因《加勒比海盜：黑珍珠號的詛咒》獲得電影協會最佳男演員獎。

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The filmEdward Scissorhandstells the love story of robot Edward who lived alone in the castle until Peg missed the castle and took him home. After falling in love with Peg's daughter Kim, he could not be together.

《剪刀手愛德華》：影片講述的是機器人愛德華獨自在城堡生活，直到佩格誤闖城堡把他帶回家，他與佩格的女兒金相戀后卻無法在一起的愛情故事。

The seriesPirates of the Caribbeanincludes "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Gathering of the Spirit" "Pirates of the Caribbean:The End of the World" "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Waves" and "Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead and None" unit.It tells the gratitude of several pirates: Jack was abandoned by another pirate captain on a desert island, and his "Black Pearl" pirate ship was defrauded;Captain Barbosa needed a special thing to unlock the spell that became human skeleton in the moonlight;Blacksmith Will is actually the son of pirates, but he did not know it himself. He just gave the story of the "heirloom" he had left as a child.

《加勒比海盜》系列電影包括《加勒比海盜：黑珍珠號的詛咒》《加勒比海盜：聚魂棺》《加勒比海盜：世界的盡頭》《加勒比海盜：驚濤怪浪》《加勒比海盜：死無對證》5部。該系列講述了幾個海盜的恩恩怨怨：杰克被另一個海盜船長拋棄在荒島上，他的“黑珍珠”海盜船被騙走；巴博薩船長需要一個特殊的東西來解開月光下變成骷髏的咒語；鐵匠威爾其實是海盜之子，但他自己并不知情，他只是小時候把留下的“傳家寶”送給了心上人的故事。